"The Eighth Air Force was completely wiped out?!"

After stumbling over the contents of the telegram word by word, he held the telegram from Shunroku Hata in his hand, and Isamu Yokoyama, who had been hit multiple times, was stunned, and the whole person was stunned for a long, long time.

It's like a clay sculpture.

Even the wide-eyed, godless eyes didn't blink.

"General?"

The staff officer who came to report shouted cautiously.

Although General Isamu Yokoyama rarely fanned his staff officers, the content of this telegram was too bad, and as a staff officer, he knew very well that the Eighth Air Force was the hope of the 11th Army in Hengyang.

And now, the Eighth Air Force has almost been wiped out, so he was ready to be fanned before he came.

But the current situation is a bit beyond his expectations.

Is the general stupid?

After waiting for a while, Yokoyama recovered from the clay sculpture, at this time, his whole person seemed to be more than ten years old all of a sudden, although his hair was not as gray as Shinozuka Yoshio, but the original spirit was all gone.

It's about to die.

"Let's go down."

Yokoyama waved his hand and signaled for the three staff officers in the headquarters to leave.

received bad news in a row, one more outrageous than the other, and one more desperate than the other, at this time Yokoyama Yong was completely heartbroken.

He didn't know.

Why did the Songxian Independent Regiment no longer give Hengyang airlift supplies, and in the absence of any threat, if there was something else to drag down the transport group, it would be understandable for one or two days, five or six days, but it would be obviously abnormal for half a month.

He didn't know.

Why can the defenders of Hengyang maintain a crazy heavy firepower for more than half a month without external supplies, and moreover, they can also come up with new weapons and suddenly increase the intensity of firepower.

He didn't know either.

In just two days, the Eighth Air Force was wiped out by the enemy, and none of the more than 300 planes survived, and even more than 300 veteran pilots were all shattered.

But he knew.

His Eleventh Army, his Battle of Hengyang, and his Southern Army were finished.

It won't be long before the troops of the Independent Regiment in Songxian County, under the cover of hundreds of tanks and hundreds of aircraft, will advance towards Hengyang and Changsha, and at the same time, they will be able to cut off their supplies through bombing and guerrillas.

And although he has an army of 200,000 troops, more than 100,000 troops around him, and nearly 100,000 supplementary soldiers, he has an absolute superiority in troops, but in a frontal field battle, it is impossible to defeat the armored troops with absolute air superiority.

"Send a report to Prime Minister Tojo."

There is an interception in front and a chasing soldier in the back, so I should be able to agree to retreat... Yokoyama sighed with relief.

At this moment, the staff officer found that his commander seemed to have regained a lot of energy, as if he was five or six years younger.

"Hey."

The staff officer immediately went to prepare.

Suddenly, another staff officer ran in in a panic:

"General."

"The Guangdong-Hanzhou Railway has been bombed on a large scale, and many railway stations, bridges, and hubs have been damaged, and the railway has been interrupted."

The staff officer's tone was hurried:

"The time is too short, the specific damage has not yet been counted, and Yoneda Osa of the railway garrison is leading people to count, but it is expected that within five days, it will not be able to resume traffic."

"The front line reported that a large number of transport planes were found in the sky over Hengyang, about fifty of them."

"Got it."

Hearing that his logistics route was cut off, Yokoyama Yong's tone remained unchanged, he waved his hand, and asked the staff officer to leave by himself with a calm tone and expression.

The current situation, the logistics are cut off, and it is not big bad news.

As for the appearance of the transport aircraft group of the independent regiment in Hengyang, this shows that the reserves of the Hengyang troops are about to be exhausted, but in the current situation, this news is dispensable, and it is impossible for him to take Hengyang anyway.

"Hey."

The staff officer paused for a moment before putting down the telegram and leaving.

He felt that his own commander seemed a little happy to hear the news?

After that, Yokoyama looked at the map of Hengyang and sighed deeply again.

After serving in the army for decades, he never thought that he would be blocked by a small city, a small city with a population of only more than 200,000, for two months, and after paying a total of nearly 100,000 casualties and more than 50,000 jade pieces, he still failed to capture the city.

Then, he gave one last order:

"From today onwards, stop attacking Hengyang and switch to defense on the spot."

However, what Yokoyama didn't know was that the transport plane that landed at Hengyang Airport at this time was not carrying supplies.

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"Transport the armored units to Hengyang."

"Disrupted war?"

Looking at the telegram sent by Li Yunlong, Kong Jie was startled.

After occupying Yanchang, annihilating the Sixth Division, and escorting Kanda Zheng and his group of senior leaders of the Sixth Division back to Ping'an County, Li Yunlong sent an unprecedented telegram to Kong Jie.

The contents of the telegram gave Kong Jie a small suggestion.

Directly airlift an elite armored force to Hengyang, break through the 11th Army of the Devils outside Hengyang with armored force, and then cooperate with the troops in Hengyang to completely defeat and disperse the 11th Army of the Devils, and cooperate with the guerrillas to encircle and suppress.

"This way..."

Kong Jie fell into deep thought.

At first, Kong Jie directly cut off Li Yunlong's idea.

In the vicinity of Hengyang, there were nearly 400,000 devils, although the main supply route was opened by fifteen heavy bombers with radio-guided bombs, and the guerrillas took the opportunity to destroy them on a large scale, it was impossible to recover within a week.

However, with the supplies carried by the Japanese army in Hengyang, it can last at least a week or even two weeks of operations, and as for food, it is not a problem to maintain it for half a month or even more than a month, so it is still a normal force.

He transports a team of elite armored troops, it doesn't take too much, as long as the first, second, and third armored battalions are transported over, and with the Hengyang artillery, he can indeed defeat the devils outside the city.

But the Tenth Army of Hengyang, even if it is currently less than 40,000, will annihilate at most one division, and if it is a little more, it will have to be supported. Even if he transported all the armored forces and the infantry, he would only be able to annihilate two divisions.

Crushing and annihilation are two different things entirely.

When the time comes, the 400,000 devils will only eat two or three divisions and regiments, and the rest of the devils will run away, wouldn't it be a blood loss.

Not to mention the annihilation of 20,000 devils has a large factory, and there are 50 masters, and the tank business has risen so far, the price of devils has risen really much, and now in August, every devil killed by the independent regiment can get a No. 4 tank - No. 4 tank not counting accessories.

Of course, there are also cement, food, fuel and other materials.

Although this number is completely mosquitoes for doubling the amount per month, no matter how small a mosquito is, it is still meat.

But Li Yunlong analyzed it very clearly in the telegram.

With the temperament of a devil, even if he learns that Yanchang is occupied, he will definitely not retreat, but will try to fight a decisive battle.

There are 400,000 devils near Hengyang, an unprecedented army in scale, and there has been no large-scale battle for more than a month, the reserves are sufficient, and the supply channel has not been completely cut off, but the number of material transportation is much less.

It can be described as strong and strong, and the materials are sufficient.

The devils will definitely concentrate their forces, use the complex terrain outside Hengyang City, build a position, replicate the 'Dingzhou' battle, and completely eat the independent regiment troops who came to attack.

There are many waterways and bridges in the southern region, and now it is the rainy season, and the mobility of the tank troops is seriously limited.

The devil has plenty of time to prepare.

Directly attack the prepared devil's position, which can be defeated, but it is very troublesome.

But it is different if the troops gather directly in Hengyang, and they can't imagine that there will be armored troops when they kill the little devils, and a large number of armored troops will emerge directly from Hengyang City.

When the time comes, a part of the armored troops will feint from the front to attract the attention of the devils, and then more than a dozen armored battalions and dozens of infantry battalions will attack from Hengyang, and directly insert a knife from the back of the devil's position, which will definitely completely defeat the devil troops concentrated around Hengyang.

Although he currently has only eleven armored battalions, and other places cannot support his armored battalion, the division of troops is not appropriate, but the problem is easy to solve.

Kong Jie immediately thought of a way.

After the collapse of the devil's army, eleven armored battalions carried infantry to disperse and pursue, and hundreds of attack planes and flying gunboats in the sky fired at each other, in order to defeat the devils to the greatest extent and disperse the devils as much as possible.

During the assembly of the troops in Hengyang, the guerrillas in various places were strengthened, dressed up, trained, and more directly, supplemented the elite squads drawn from the independent regiment, and strangled the scattered devils.

After a set, even if a devil runs away, it is absolutely indispensable.

"Let the defenders of Hengyang expand their positions and expand their camps."

Li Yunlong's analysis impressed Kong Jie, and he then gave the order.

The most important thing in this armored raid is to be concealed, and it is important to make sure that the troops are not discovered by the devils before launching an attack.

The equipment can be secretly taken out through the warehouse, but the troops need to be assembled before attacking, and the positions occupied by the Hengyang defenders cannot provide concealment for the assembled armored troops, so before making plans, it is necessary to help the Hengyang defenders expand their positions.

"Order, the 1st, 2nd, 3rd Battalion of Infantry... In addition, in a few days, the seven veteran battalions that came from Heyuan County were also dispersed to the local armed forces around the Guangdong-Hanzhou Railway in their ranks. ”

Kong Jie continued in a sinister tone:

"Gather a group of soldiers who can drive a car, preferably from the original preserved fruit troops, and then run a training course to train them to drive tanks."

There are at least ten armored battalions that suddenly burst out of Hengyang, so there will be no armored battalions for the troops that are feint in front of them, so Kong Jie plans to temporarily form a few tank battalions.

Tanks are ready-made anyway.

Since the devil is going to have a 'Dingzhou' show, then he, Uncle Kong Jiekong, naturally has to cooperate and recruit a group of real 'novice' tank groups, so that the devils know that the tank group of the independent regiment really can't drive tanks.